Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
The 2024 Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory (FMEL) - Environmental Learning Center (ELC) Volunteer Nature Stewardship Class enjoyed a stroll on the ELC led by Marc Spiess, the ELC Campus Manager. On that walk he pointed out a beard lichen (Usnea…
At a quick glance it looks like a white paint ball blotch, but it is not. With its white brightness, wreath lichen (Cryptothecia striata) stands out on the trunks of lancewood (Nectandra coriacea) on the east-west trail that leads away…
The lichens were looking lovely when we visited south Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (SORCA) to check out the epiphytic Florida butterfly orchids (Encylia tampensis) on June 27, 2020. Lichens do not harm the plant (or other surface) on which they…
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Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 